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They bolt me to the billiard-room, Where chaps are playing five-bob snooker; They see me dodging from the doom, They heed no threats and no rebuker; "We've got thee now," they say, "ba goom!"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-28 by Various

This lover of liberty, this gentle rebuker of kings, was of the free-thinkers, at least in the sympathy of political thought.

From Classic French Course in English by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

This lover of liberty, this gentle rebuker of kings, was of the freethinkers, at least in the sympathy of political thought.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

Majestical rebuker of the waste of lives, rebuker of a country which invites all lives into it and wastes lives most ruthlessly—lives which it stands there to shelter and to foster and to save.

From A Cathedral Singer by Allen, James Lane

In philosophy he was not very accurate, but he was a notable rebuker of vice.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas